All Grocery articles – Page 679
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Netto sales climb
Value retailers continue to pull in the customers, with Netto announcing a 7 per cent sales increase over the year to June 14.
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Consumer spend to slow to 0.5% next year
Consumer spending growth in the UK will slow to just 0.5 per cent next year as households face high energy and food prices and falling property values.
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Co-op to buy Somerfield for £1.6bn
The Co-operative Group is poised to buy Somerfield’s 955 stores in a deal worth 1.6 billion as early as next week, according to reports.
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Carrefour hypermarket sales slide
International retail giant Carrefour is to speed up the pace of change after second quarter sales slipped at its French hypermarkets.
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Lots of sandwiches and a few spats: M&S AGM sketch
They came, they ate his sandwiches and they voted for him.
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M&S shareholders back Rose
Shareholders have showed their support for Sir Stuart Rose voting 94.1 per cent in favour of his re-election as executive chairman at this afternoon’s AGM. However, 17 per cent of shareholders abstained.
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Shop price rise for June stays below inflation
June shop prices were 2.5 per cent higher than last year but below overall inflation, according to the BRC-Nielsen Shop Price Index.
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Sainsbury's tags chickens as theft rises
Sainsbury’s is attaching security tags to frozen chickens to combat soaring theft of both value and top-of-the-range birds.
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Waitrose hiring signals convenience push
Waitrose is understood to have hired a head of convenience as it gears up to take on the likes of Sainsbury’s Local and M&S Simply Food.
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M&S shareholders back Rose
Shareholders have showed their emphatic support for Sir Stuart Rose voting 94.1 per cent in favour of his re-election as executive chairman at this afternoon’s AGM.
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Marks & Spencer pulls out of Taiwan
Marks & Spencer is to close all its stores in Taiwan after just 14 months of trading in the country, dealing another blow to the embattled retailer.
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Morrisons ups ante in price war
Morrisons has delivered another blow in the supermarket price wars with the creation of a fresh family meal for 4.
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PM calls on consumers to curb food waste
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on UK consumers to stop making “unnecessary” food purchases, in an effort to curb almost £1 billion of food wasted each year.
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Rose faces investor rebellion
More than a quarter of Marks & Spencer investors could this week abstain or vote against Sir Stuart Rose’s elevation to executive chairman.
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John Lewis enlists staff to appear in ad campaign
John Lewis will launch the second phase of its latest ad campaign today. For the first time in the department store’s 144-year history, it will feature employees.
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Opinion
Competitiveness is key for M&S
No apologies for returning to the biggest story of the week, the trials of Marks & Spencer. After all, food is at the root of its problems.
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Qataris increase stake in Sainsbury's
The Qatar Investment Authority has upped its stake in Sainsbury’s to 26 per cent.
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Tesco to deploy staff scheduling to stores
Tesco is to roll out a workforce scheduling system to its stores.
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FL Group buys stake in Baugur
Icelandic investment vehicle FL Group has acquired a 39 per cent stake in Baugur under the new name Stodir.